Best Sermons Quotations
136 Sermons quotes by 112 unique authors
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Logic and sermons never convince, The damp of the night drives deeper into my soul.
— Walt Whitman
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Since I was eight years old, I went to Trinity. I mean, I listened to Reverend Wright since I was a kid and I always…
— Will Ferrell
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When I pastored a country church, a farmer didn't like the sermons I preached on hell. He said, Preach about the meek and lowly Jesus.…
— Vance Havner
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What do our clergy lose by reading their sermons? They lose preaching, the preaching of the voice in many cases, the preaching of the eye…
— Augustus William Hare
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Almost all human affairs are tedious. Everything is too long. Visits, dinners, concerts, plays, speeches, pleadings, essays, sermons, are too long. Pleasure and business labor…
— Arthur Helps
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I write all my sermons.
— Joel Osteen
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If the truth were known, many sermons are prepared and preached with more regard for the sermon than the souls of the hearers.
— George Frederick Pentecost
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It would be difficult to determine whether the age is growing better or worse; for I think our plays are growing like sermons, and our…
— Anna Letitia Barbauld
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Your national greatness, swelling vanity; your denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons…
— Frederick Douglass
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I can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible for inspirations to come with…
— Sinclair Lewis
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The stupid texts of the Bible - from which, be the talents of the preacher what they may, only stupid sermons can be preached.
— Thomas Paine
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Sermons are like pie-crust, the shorter the better.
— Austin O'Malley
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Few are altogether deaf to the preaching of pine trees. Their sermons on the mountains go to our hearts; and if people in general could…
— John Muir
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I must return to the mountains-to Yosemite. I am told that the winter storms there will not be easily borne, but I am bewitched, enchanted,…
— John Muir
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Few are altogether deaf to the preaching of pine trees. Their sermons on the mountains go to our hearts . . .
— John Muir
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As it can be maintained that all the great advances have come from men under forty, so the history of the world shows that a…
— William Osler
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Many people conceive of religion as something apart from everyday affairs of the world. They think of it in terms of ceremony or ritual or…
— Norman Vincent Peale
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A man got up [after one of Huxley's 'sermons'] and said 'they had never heard anything like that in Norwich before'. Never 'did Science seem…
— Adrian Desmond
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There are sermons in stones, but it depends on how good your aim is.
— Albert Meltzer
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I remember the first sermon I ever preached. I had four sermons. I preached them, all four in ten minutes. And that was the beginning,…
— Billy Graham
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When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to…
— James Earl Jones
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Most sermons sound to me like commercials - but I can't make out whether God is the Sponsor or the Product.
— Mignon McLaughlin
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And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
— William Shakespeare
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Had I become a priest, the sermons would've been electric!
— Johnny Vegas
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So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the…
— Alan Watts
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